Police dash cams

TODD YATES/CALLER-TIMES Olga Flores, a senior officer with the Corpus Christi Police Department, shows how the department’s new dash cameras work. Until the installation of 154 cameras in patrol cars, Corpus Christi was largest city in the state whose police department didn’t have cameras. Arlington, the city closest in size to Corpus Christi, has been using dash camera video for about 10 years.

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TODD YATES/CALLER-TIMES Corpus Christi Police Senior Officer Olga Flores shows how the department’s new dash cameras work. The system the agency purchased is a $1.4 million package from Coban Technologies, Green said. The camera units cost $4,500 per car.

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TODD YATES/CALLER-TIMES Members of the Corpus Christi Police Department train on the wireless microphone systems that connect to the department’s new dash camera system.

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TODD YATES/CALLER-TIMES The Corpus Christi Police Department installed 154 new dash cameras in patrol cars. The process to get the new system took more than five years, two police chiefs and more than $1 million.

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TODD YATES/CALLER-TIMES Members of the Corpus Christi Police Department attend a training session for the new Coban in-car camera system. An officer cannot control when the video starts recording from the dash camera. It automatically begins when an officer activates lights and sirens, the vehicle reaches 80 mph or faster or a rear door is opened.